Oil-can.



No. 897,729. PATENTED SEPT. i, 1908.

L. M. FOREMAN.

OIL CAN.

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LLOYD M. FOREHAN, OF HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

OIL-CAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

Application filed August 23, 1907. Serial No. 389,879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LLOYD M. FOREMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Huntington, in the county of Cabell and State of Test Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Oil-Cans, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved oiler for use in oiling tools, leather, whetstones, and other things and the said invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved oiler which enables the user to apply oil to a tool or the like without danger of greasing his fingers or clothing, and which oiler when not in use may have the oil applying element covered to prevent waste of oil and also prevent such oil applying element from becoming covered with dust or dirt.

In the accompanying drawings,-Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of an oiler constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a top end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a bottom end view of the same with the cap for the oil spreading felt removed; Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view of the same. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the said cap.

The oiling vessel 1 may be of any suitable form, but is here shown as cylindrical. Its top is provided at its center with a screw threaded nipple 2 having a screw cap 3 and is further provided near one side with a filling nipple 4 having a screw cap 5. The screw cap 3 of the nipple 2 is provided with a central opening in which is inserted the upper end of a rod 6, which rod is provided at its lower end with a valve 7 to close or uncover a discharge opening 8, which is made in the bottom of the vessel, at the center thereof. The said valve has a cylindrical portion 9 which operates in a guide opening in a keeper 10 which keeper is of substantially inverted Ushape, and has the lower ends of its vertical arms out-turned and secured, as by means of solder, on the bottom of the said vessel 1. At the bottom of the vessel 1 is an annular cap or band 11, which is made of sheet metal and is preferably fluted as at 12 to facilitate its attachment to and its detachment from the bottom of the vessel, and the said band is provided at its lowered ge with an inturned annularflange 13 which is spaced somewhat below the bot tom of the vessel 1, and serves to hold an oil spreading felt disk 14 against the bottom of the said vessel, as shown in Fig. 1.

When the screw cap 3 is screwed tightly on the nipple 2 it serves to close the valve 7 over the opening 8 to prevent the flow of oil from the vessel. When such screw cap is partially unscrewed it serves to move the valve 7 from the bottom of the vessel to uncover the opening 8 and permitv the'fiow of oil through the said opening to the felt 14, so that the oil saturates such felt or pad and adapts the latter to apply oil on the tool, surface or material to be oiled as will be under stood. When the oiler is not in use the felt pad 14 may be covered by a cap 15 as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, to prevent the loss of oil from the felt pad and also prevent such pad from becoming covered with dust or dirt.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is 2* 1. An oiler having a valve at one end to control the flow of oil therefrom, an ab sorbent oil applying pad, at such valved end of the oiler, and a band to engage and extend around the edge of such oiler and having means to engage and support such pad to detachably secure such pad at such end of the oiler such band providing an opening eX- posing the major portion of the outer surface of such pad.

2. An oiler having a valved discharge opening at one end, an oil applying pad at such end of the oiler, and a band on such end of the oiler and having means to support such pad and hold the same in place, such band being fluted for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof, I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LLOYD M. FOREMAN.

Witnesses:

C. W. LIvELY, PENDLETON L. WILLIAMS. 

